The Martian Chronicles, written by Ray Bradbury, is about man's journey to Mars in 26 loosely connected stories. Each story tells a different perspective of the new frontier and Bradbury's view on humans. The book begins with Earth facing war and man sending rockets to Mars in search of a new life. After several failed expeditions men finally begins to live on Mars. The Martian race is known either to be extinct or living in the mountains because the chicken pox wiped out most of their population. Man quickly takes over and starts sending more and more people to Mars. Ray Bradbury reveals several ideas that he has about human nature and the human experience.
One idea that Bradbury has about the human experience is tha
Bradbury also displays human tendency to seek revenge because of the belief that two wrongs make a right. Stendal, in act of revenge builds a house on Mars to get back at the censorship people for the destruction of imaginative things. Stendal tells his plans after the completion of his house to the unseen rockets in the sky, "So I'm going to show you. I'm going to teach you a fine lesson for what you did to Mr. Poe on Earth. As of this day, beware. The house of Usher is open for business!"(106). With that house Stendal kills all the people who were part of the destruction of imaginative things. Stendal and Pikes then destroy the house are pleased with their work, "They looked at the Great House smiling"(118). When the fourth expedition lands
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